It’s a regional issue that’s been going on for thousands of years, with many sub-events.
Essentially, Israel has been stealing land from Palestine since it was first created as a nation. Separate from that, relations between Israel and Gaza, which is a Palestinian territory inside Israel, have been tense, and blew up when Hamas, which effectively governed Gaza, broke through the barricade keeping them hemmed in and killed/kidnapped a bunch of people in Israel proper.
Israel responded by flattening most of Gaza, and attacking people in many other parts of Palestine and taking more land.
Hamas is mostly backed/funded by the Iranian government.
Israel also attacked Syria and sent some settlers over the Syrian border, and attacked Lebanon, targeting Hezbolah-controlled border states; Hezbolah is also Iranian government-backed.
Israel then attacked Iran, and convinced the US to join them.
It’s worth noting that the current Israeli government is hard-right expansionist nationalist, and has been waiting for an excuse to do these things for a while now.
